Psychology

Psychology is a science. Many psychologists are interested in doing research. The research is then shared
with the larger scientific community in scholarly journals after being vetted by experts in the field. To give you a
brief idea of research, you are required to find and read one empirical study in a scholarly journal. Empirical
study means that this is an article where the authors write about a study they actually performed (not only
about theoretical issues or a compilation or studies other people have done called theoretical papers or
literature reviews).
For this project, you will write a 3-page minimum paper. To do this you will:
Work with your summary and the main points of the article. It is important that you close the article while you
are doing this so you can be sure you are not plagiarizing (changing a couple words or switching phrases
around still constitutes plagiarism).
Write down a 3 paragraph description of the article including why the authors performed this study, what tools
and participants they used, and what they found.
Compare the information you read to the topic information found in your textbook along the lines of whether
this is the same information, or different. Did the article extend on the stuff that is found in your text? Does it
contradict it in some way? Can you reconcile the two? Are there any questions that are still left unanswered?
What further research would you do if you were the author of the article? What other questions would you like
answers to?